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Phillip R. Neal

Researcher at Marine Biological Laboratory

Publications -  5
Citations -  4884

Phillip R. Neal is an academic researcher from Marine Biological Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species evenness & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 4577 citations. Previous affiliations of Phillip R. Neal include University of Chicago.

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Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere”

TL;DR: It is shown that bacterial communities of deep water masses of the North Atlantic and diffuse flow hydrothermal vents are one to two orders of magnitude more complex than previously reported for any microbial environment.
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Microbial population structures in the deep marine biosphere.

TL;DR: It is predicted that hundreds of thousands of sequences will be necessary to capture the vast diversity of microbial communities, and that different patterns of evenness for both high- and low-abundance taxa may be important in defining microbial ecosystem dynamics.
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Water mass-specificity of bacterial communities in the North Atlantic revealed by massively parallel sequencing.

TL;DR: The results reveal that deep‐water masses act as bio‐oceanographic islands for bacterioplankton leading to water mass‐specific bacterial communities in the deep waters of the Atlantic.
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Effect of PCR amplicon size on assessments of clone library microbial diversity and community structure

TL;DR: It is shown that the length of the target amplicon has a significant effect on assessments of microbial richness and community membership, and it is clear that the smallest amplicon libraries contained more different types of sequences, and accordingly, more diverse members of the community.